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Soviets in Space: Russia’s Cosmonauts and the Space Frontier

byColin Burgess

In this deeply researched chronology, Colin Burgess describes the Soviet Union’s extraordinary success in the pioneering years of space exploration. Soviets in Space combines scientific research, fieldwork, and carefully chosen case studies, allowing the evidence to complicate easy judgments and familiar explanations. Seen through the lens of history and science, Soviets in Space explains not only what happened, but why competing interpretations still matter. By the end, the russia’s cosmonauts and the space frontier emerges as a layered story of competing motives, unintended results, and choices made under pressure.

Publisher

Reaktion Books, Limited

Publication date

2022-07-11

Format

Print edition

Pages

240

ISBN

9781789146325